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MISSIONS (Lat. missio, a sending)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 583 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MISSIONS (See also:Lat. missio, a sending)  the See also:term used specially for the propagandist operations of the See also:Christian See also:Church among the See also:heathen, the executants of this See also:work being missionaries . Both " See also:mission " and " missionary " have hence come to be used of similar See also:works in other See also:spheres . The See also:history of Christian See also:missions may, for See also:practical purposes, be divided into three See also:chief periods: (1) the See also:primitive, (2) the See also:medieval and (3) the See also:modern .

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